The 7th Century, the "Orientalizing" Period


Athens: (End of the Late Geometric in ca. 700 B.C.)

Early Protoattic: 700-675 The Analatos Painter
Middle Protoattic: 675-650 "Black and White Style"
Late Protoattic: 650-610

Athenian Vase Painters:

New York Nessos Painter
Polyphemos Painter
Ram Jug Painter
 
N.B. Black Figure vase painting technique invented ca. 630

Corinth:

Early Protocorinthian : 720-690
Middle Protocorinthian: 690-650
Late Protocorinthian : 650-640 [Macmillan Painter]
"Transitional" : 640-625

aryballos - pl. aryballoi tiny perfume pot, e.g. Macmillan aryballos (British Museum)
olpe, a round-mouthed jug; e.g. Chigi olpe (Villa Giulia, Rome)
Sculpture:

"Daedalic" style - from Daidalos, legendary craftsman;  ca. 650-600 of eastern inspiration, spread from Crete?

  • Cretan sanctuaries of this period with sculpture:
  • Dreros, ca. 700 (with bronzes of Apollo, Leto, Artemis in the sphyrelaton or hammered         bronze technique);
  • Prinias: Temple A; Gortyn
    • polos (pl. poloi): pillbox headdress worn esp. by Daedalic style women, prob. BA origin
    etagenperücke: "stepped wig", term applied to Daedalic hairstyle
    perirrhanteria (water basins): Laconia, Olympia, Isthmia, Delphi Rhodes, Samos, Ptosn (Boiotia)
    Other:

    Monumental sculpture, Egyptian influence: cf. pharaoh Psammetichos I (664-610)
    Tyrant, tyranny: from tyrannos,"absolute ruler", probably an eastern loan-word (Lydian or Phyrgian)
    Kypselos: tyrant of Corinth, ca. 657-27; Periander: his son, 627-585
    Polykrates of Samos, 3rd 1/4 6th c.
    Peisistratids (Peisistratos & sons Hippias & Hipparchos) in Athens, 560s-10